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I would appreciate it if "any" decendents of "ERASMUS GROYN MARABLE",would be so kind as to contact me. (or anyone with any info. concerning him) I believe he probably resided somewhere first,in Georgia and then from there, moved to Alabama, quite possibly near the Roanoke or Opelika area. Timeline....probably l850 or just before The Civil War and thereafter. Any information would be appreciated. Thank You, "Toni L. Marable Hamilton

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Anyone know of any relations to my Great Grand Father W.A. Marable, I believe W.A. stands for William Alfonzo, he was married to an Indian Lady named Pearl, my grand fathers name was Claud Clarence, known as C.C., all three are buried in Georgia, I know a least for some time that CC resided in South Carolina. I think CC's year of birth was 1919 and prior to his death in the early 1940's he resided in Macon, GA. W.A. Marable went by the name Alfonzo.

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As I stated earlier, This is a wonderful Web-site, and I really feel blessed because of it. It has helped me locate and communicate with other family members, whom I never knew existed. I talked to Fate Marable's Son and Daughter after finding out we were cousins, and others. Thank you James for a Job "WELL DONE" I have another request, I would now like to know, If anyone could help me locate any list (inventory) of slave names (documents)from any of the Plantations in Georgia and/or a list of the "Marable" Plantation owners full names and locations (cities/count es in Georgia), Just prior to the Civil war (Middle 1800's) I found out, by talking to other older famiy members, that my Great grandparents, George and Sylvia Marable, were originally slaves from a Plantation in Georgia and not Alabama. If anyone could supply me with any information in reference to this request, it would be most appreciated Thank You, "Toni"

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As I stated earlier, This is a wonderful Web-site, and I really feel blessed because of it. It has helped me locate other family members, whom I never knew existed. I talked to Fate Marable's Son and Daughter after finding out we were cousins, and others. Thank you James for a Job " I would now like to know If anyone could help me locate any list (inventory) of slave names (documents)from any of the Plantations in Georgia and/or a list of the "Marable" Plantation owners full names and locations (cities/counties in Georgia), Just pri r to the Civil war (Middle 1800's) I would appreciate any information anyone could supply me with.

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Below is clipped from the Marable articles. I need to know the complete list of children of Doct John Bigger and wife Sarah (Stokes). Also, the next generation, if possible. I have a new web page where I am building the land and families on the South F rk of Meherrin River, Lunenburg and Mecklenburg counties, VA. Many thanks for any help. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jolee/index.htm ====== ------------------------ MARY MERIWETHER MARABLE AND DAVID STOKES, JR. The will of Matthew the Burgess mentions his son-in-law David Stokes, Jr. who married his daughter Mary Meriwether Marable on 3 Feb 1783 in Charlotte Co., VA. A descendant of this union, Robert W. Gatewood, who is now retired and living in Pt. Charlot e, FL, has joined our group and provided some additional information: 1-Mary Meriwether MARABLE sp: David STOKES, Jr. ....2-Sarah ("Sallie") STOKES ....sp: Dr. John BIGGER ........3-Capt. David James BIGGER ........sp: Mary Elizabeth ROBERTSON ............4-Martha ("Pattie") Ann BIGGER ............sp: Edwin Austin CLEMENTS [Robert's line] ....2-Elizabeth B. STOKES ....sp: BURWELL ....2-Mary M. STOKES ....2-William B. STOKES ....sp: Nancy A. He also informs us that David and Mary Stokes were living on Finneywood Creek in around 1816, which would have been on the land left to Mary by her father Matthew. Coincidentally, one of the bits of information provided by Bonnie Tsurudomo about CCM Marable is that James Birchett was appointed his guardian in 1811, but was replaced as guardian in 1813 by William Stokes. CCM's first cousin William B. STOKES, abov , would have been coming of age about then, so this could be him.

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Below is clipped from the Marable articles. I need to know the complete list of children of Doct John Bigger and wife Sarah (Stokes). Also, the next generation, if possible. I have a new web page where I am building the land and families on the South F rk of Meherrin River, Lunenburg and Mecklenburg counties, VA. Many thanks for any help. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jolee/index.htm ====== ------------------------ MARY MERIWETHER MARABLE AND DAVID STOKES, JR. The will of Matthew the Burgess mentions his son-in-law David Stokes, Jr. who married his daughter Mary Meriwether Marable on 3 Feb 1783 in Charlotte Co., VA. A descendant of this union, Robert W. Gatewood, who is now retired and living in Pt. Charlot e, FL, has joined our group and provided some additional information: 1-Mary Meriwether MARABLE sp: David STOKES, Jr. ....2-Sarah ("Sallie") STOKES ....sp: Dr. John BIGGER ........3-Capt. David James BIGGER ........sp: Mary Elizabeth ROBERTSON ............4-Martha ("Pattie") Ann BIGGER ............sp: Edwin Austin CLEMENTS [Robert's line] ....2-Elizabeth B. STOKES ....sp: BURWELL ....2-Mary M. STOKES ....2-William B. STOKES ....sp: Nancy A. He also informs us that David and Mary Stokes were living on Finneywood Creek in around 1816, which would have been on the land left to Mary by her father Matthew. Coincidentally, one of the bits of information provided by Bonnie Tsurudomo about CCM Marable is that James Birchett was appointed his guardian in 1811, but was replaced as guardian in 1813 by William Stokes. CCM's first cousin William B. STOKES, abov , would have been coming of age about then, so this could be him.

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Wonderful web-site! I would like to locate any African Americans Marables and find out more about our background. I live in Southern California,(in the San Fernando Valley. My father is Charles D. Marable, he now lives in Arizona. Any Information anyone could supply me with would be appreciated. I know that my grandfather was Prince Albert Marable. He was from Olmor(?),Alabama, his father and mother were George and Sylvia Marable from OPelike,(?) Alabama, so I'm told by my Unce Prince Jr. (who lives in Detroit Mich.) Any Information supplied would be appreciated. "Toni"

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Looking for information on B.F. Marable of Sampson/Duplin Counties, NC. He was there between 1850 - 1900. He was also a clergyman. Any information would be greatly appreciated

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Looking for descendants of Elmo Eugene Marable, son of Russell Elexander (sic) Marable and Daisy Earlie Parks. Eugene was b Nov 18, 1928 in Hutchinson Co., TX. No info on whether or not he is deceased. He and wife, Marjorie Frances Coffee had at least our children: Katherine Elizabeth, Penny Ann, Rebecca Lynn and Victoria Lynn.

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Nizzawebsite. Dank für das Lassen ich Ihr guestbook unterzeichnen

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The web-site is awesome! I'm fascinated by the depth of the family's history. Can anyone tell me how the Marables ended up in Tuskegee, AL?

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I am the grandaughter of a William Marable from Texas (yes, I know it's a BIG state!). He married Mary Hayes and the had one child, Jeanne Elizabeth Marable born in 1919 in Oklahoma. He died in the early 70's. This is all I know of him. Any informatio would be helpful. I like to know more about him and the Marable side of my family. Thanks, Billie Welch, Edmond, OK

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I am the grandaughter of a William Marable from Texas (yes, I know it's a BIG state!). He married Mary Hayes and the had one child, Jeanne Elizabeth Marable born in 1919 in Oklahoma. He died in the early 70's. This is all I know of him. Any informatio would be helpful. I like to know more about him and the Marable side of my family. Thanks, Billie Welch, Edmond, OK

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I am the grandaughter of a William Marable from Texas (yes, I know it's a BIG state!). He married Mary Hayes and the had one child, Jeanne Elizabeth Marable born in 1919 in Oklahoma. He died in the early 70's. This is all I know of him. Any informatio would be helpful. I like to know more about him and the Marable side of my family. Thanks, Billie Welch, Edmond, OK

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I am the grandaughter of a William Marable from Texas (yes, I know it's a BIG state!). He married Mary Hayes and the had one child, Jeanne Elizabeth Marable born in 1919 in Oklahoma. He died in the early 70's. This is all I know of him. Any informatio would be helpful. I like to know more about him and the Marable side of my family. Thanks, Billie Welch, Edmond, OK

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I am the grandaughter of a William Marable from Texas (yes, I know it's a BIG state!). He married Mary Hayes and the had one child, Jeanne Elizabeth Marable born in 1919 in Oklahoma. He died in the early 70's. This is all I know of him. Any informatio would be helpful. I like to know more about him and the Marable side of my family. Thanks, Billie Welch, Edmond, OK

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How am I supposed to know if Im related to these people. Im from chesterfield, Va and there are Marable's that live in the area and swear that we aren't related so how do I know

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Awesome website Uncle Jim! I accessed it to use it in part of an assignmet for a class in school. I intend to revisit as soon as this quarter is over and really get wowed :)!!

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Great website. I'm seeking info on James A. Marable, born April 11, 1892, died October 21, 1939. He md Florence Elizabeth BOWERS (1889 - 1929, daughter of William Bowers and Drucilla SIMS. Florence died giving birth to dau. Beatrice, who also died. Floren e and presumably Beatrice are buried at Cedar Vale, NM. Children: i. James Howard Marable; md. Maxine _. ii. Dwight Edwin Marable, b. June 27, 1924, Itasca, Hill County, Texas; d. November 02, 1989; md. Dixie _. iii. Montrue Marable iv. Annie Beatrice Marable James' wife, Florence Bowers, was my stepfather's mother. James was her 2d husband. Thanks! Brit Ferguson, Stephenville, Texas http://www.our-town.com/~brit

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My cousin is a Marable. She told me about this site. It is fascinating. I was wondering about a site for the Gravestock family that I believe originates in England. My dad had it done once - but I have lost it. I know that we are 7th generation to Abraham Lincoln. How could I find out about the "Gravestock" family. Thanks. Pleae e-mail me at about address. KK Holstein or porpoise@ior.com

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james- this is your cousin, viki. (charles bryce marable's daughter) i stumbled upon the marable family history page one day while surfing the web. you have done an amazing job with our family history, thank you!!

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This Web page is GREAT! I know that my Marable line fits in here somewhere. According to my Great-Granfather's Marriage records, his parents were W.H. and A.E. Marable. The Obituary of Ann E. Marable that you have on your page states that her Father wa James L. Gwaltney. I have also discovered that James L. Gwaltney had a daughter named Eliza Ann Emildred Gwaltney born in 1820. Your early marriage records show that she married William H. Marable, Jr. It also shows that a William H. Marable, Jr. married a Mary E. Lee. I believe these William H. Marables are the same person, but does the H. stand for "Howell" or "Hartwell?" I also have found that William H. and Eliza were living in Sussex County in 1860. The people that lived with them included: Thomas E., Stanley, Arthur, Nannie G., William B., J.L. Gwaltney, Martha Gwaltney, and William H. Gwaltney. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks Tammy Marable

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We can't wait to have you send us the computor so that we can really get to know your Web-Site!! If you use your credit card your Mother will kill you!!! Doing this at LaVerne's has been fun and maybe now Mother knows that it isn'tas hard as she thught, plus LaVern's is the right size.

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Nice page. Very informative. Keep it up.

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I am lookin for any information on the marriage of Elizabeth Marable & Charles Strong. I am their Great, Great, Great, Great Grandaughter. Any and all information that you could give me would be greatly appreciated. Sincerest Thanks, Sonya Hines

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Union County in Arkansas has many Black Marrable(s). Does anyone know the slave owner from whom they took the name, or the history behind "Marrable Hill" in Union County? I'm asking on behalf of Chester Marrable, a native of Union County. Thanks.

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James, I have just returned from a Marable Family gathering in Phalba community near Mabank, TX. Several of the attendees have visited your site, thus sharing your Website Info with me, and others. Keep up the good work. Aud Marable, 1357 Greenwood Dr., Garland, TX 75041.

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Good site. Well-constructed. I will check back later. We may be cousins.

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I'm searching for Schuyler Marable, a colleague from the US Marine Corps for our unit's second reunion. Schuyler would be 59 or 60 now. His wife was Jane. They were from the Atlanta area. Please email if you have any knowledge of his whereabouts. Thank yo .

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The Daniel Eshon mentioned in the Marable Family History Web site was the first husband of Mary Marable, daughter of Abraham Marable of Charles City Co., VA. Her first marriage is recited in the pleading concerning the estate of her mother, Judith P. [Gi l] Marable which would have been filed sometime after Judith's 1859 death. Judith's 1857 will mentions the two daughters of the marriage -- Rebecca and Jane Eshon -- and shows that Mary was already remarried (to Thomas Willis) at that date. Mary would h ve been born after 1812 (the year of the marriage of her parents), so the Daniel Eshon that she married would not have been the one who died in 1694. The will and pleading mentioned are on the page titled "19th Century Documents of Significance to the Marable Family" at: /Heartland/Hills/5425/documents-1800-1900.html Good Luck, Jim

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Daniel Eshon-unable to locate on your web sit. Is he the one from Northamptan Co. Va? died 1693. Dau. married J. Addsion. Any info on him appreciated

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Carol -- sorry to take so long to post this response. This Benjamin Marable was the son of the Rev. Henry Hartwell Marable and Elizabeth Mason (daughter of Isaac Mason of Sussex Co., VA) who removed from Brunswick Co. to Rutherford Co., TN, shortly after 1800. Benjamin and Lucy followed his father sometime ater (but before the Barner litigation you mentioned) and are found in Rutherford Co., TN, in the 1850 census.

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Lucy BARNER, daughter of John BARNER, Sr., and Benjamin MARRABLE, Marriage Bond dated July 30, 1799; were married August 21, 1799, by the Rev. James Meacham. Surety: Stephen WHITE. (Brunswick County, Virginia, Marriage Records, page 113) When John BARNER, Sr. died circa 1822, he left property to his daughter, Lucy MARABLE. Subsequent estate records indicate that Lucy and Benjamin MARRABLE/MARABLE were not inhabitants of Brunswick County (possibly also no longer inhabitants of Virginia). Who was the parents of this Benjamin MARRABLE/MARABLE? Did Lucy and Benjamin have any children? Where did they go? This is the MARRABLE/MARABLE line that I'm interested in. Carol

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James: Thank for your inquiry about Elijah and David Brooks who married Frances and Mary Marable around 1800 in Charlotte Co., VA. Unfortunately, about all that I know at this time is the fact of the marriages and the speculation that Frances and Mary were sisters, had a brother named Champion, and were daughters of Elizabeth "Betty" Marable and [Rev.?] Christopher Edward Marable of Charlotte Co., VA -- speculation suggested by the information published in secondary sources about the marriage records. I hope to get more information soon about this family, since it appears that this is where my line runs, and I have some inquiries out to known descendants of the brother (now identified as Champion Christopher Marable (b. 1783, Charlotte Co., VA; d. aft. 1850, [Jasper Co.?,] GA). From way out here i California a major obstacle has been the fact that Christopher Marable's will (made 1779; proved Charlotte Co., VA, 1795) referred to his wife only as "Betty" and mentioned his "children" only with that term. I understand now, however, that there is family Bible in existence in Champion Christopher's family which may (I hope) tell more. I'll let you know as more develops, Jim

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I like your web pages. I would like to learn more about Elijah and Frances (Marable) Brooks and about David and Mary (Marable) Brooks. I am a descendant of Joel Brooks, father of Elijah and David Brooks. I live in Pittsylvania County VA. Thanks.

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I was interested in finding out more about my heritage and loved reading your web page. I currently attend Clark Atlanta University , in the South where the Marable family is highly populated. Throughout my life I have learned our family history from my f ther, Manning Marable. Thank You

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I was interested in finding out more about my heritage and loved reading your web page. I currently attend Clark Atlanta University , in the South where the Marable family is highly populated. Throughout my life I have learned our family history from my f ther, Manning Marable. Thank You

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Hoping someone knows of a connection of the Marrable family to John WICKLIFF b. 1782 who m. Mary TAYLOR (dau. of Wm.) in Bath Co. Va. 1792. They had a son MARBLE(or Marvel) M. WICKLIFF. They were in Washington Co. Va. and then in 1820's in Grainger Co. Tn. Does anyone know how the Marrable /Marvel ame got into the Taylor family prior to about 1765? There is a Marvel M. Taylor in Ky. who is probably Mary's brother. Thanks for any ideas. Judy Wright- Please email me at KWright354@aol.com

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just testing

Claudia Kemmerer - 11/24/97 23:16:47
My Email:ArabellaCK@aol.com

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Dear Marables: Now that I've finally visited this site (thanks, Jim and Jim), I've moved up the priority of going through g-g grandmother George (Honey) Boswell Marable's scrapbook - as well as transcribing the sometimes endless days and nights of interview. What a great web page . . . thank you for providing us all with this connection! Happy hunting!

jlm - 11/23/97 17:12:02

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Dear Marables,

This time I will give you at least a few drips and drops about Matthew Marable, the burgess of Lunenburg and Mecklenburg Counties. At least I will tell you about a couple of things that I found on the Web that concern him or his descendants.
 

------------------------ PBS Injects Matthew "Marrable" into the National Curriculum

As part of its educational programming, PBS last year aired an interactive one-hour live debate under the title "Let America Speak" in which students watched Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Senator John Ashcroft (R) of Missouri, and former Governor L. Douglas Wilder (D) of Virginia argued the question of whether the Constitution should be adopted. The background materials available to teachers on the PBS Web site included excerpts from two books which refer to the election of 1758 in which Matthew Marable's victory was successfully contested (Matthew was elected again when a new election was held t fill the seat). Here are the excerpts:

Let America Speak: Election Day
http://www.pbs.org/williamsburg/voteasvoice/electionday.html:

. . . . The militia was one of the readiest channels for the social exchanges involved in the custom of treating. A single example will suffice as illustration. Testimony concerning a disputed Lunenburg County election of 1758 revealed that both of the c ndidates who were returned as elected had worked to enhance their standing with their own and others' militia companies by plying them with rum. The House upheld the election of Mr. Read because, with genteel decorum, he had not solicited votes for himsel . "It appears . . . that after it was publicly known . . . that the Writ (for the election) was issued . . . one Memican Hunt gave a Treat on Behalf of Mr. Read to a Company of Militia he formerly had commanded, with Mr. Read's Knowledge, but not at his R quest, and invited Mr. Read's Friends to partake thereof." Mr. Marrable was in every way less discreet. He postponed until after the election the fulfillment of a promise to treat Captain Williams' militia company, expressing the fear that otherwise "it w ould vacate his Election." But, hard pressed by opposition, he was soon treating all around the county, and on "the Morning of the Election Liquor was distributed to the Company of Mr. Marrable by his Orders, but with this Caution, To take care they shoul not intoxicate themselves, least a Riot might ensue at the Election, because he wanted a fair Poll, and every Candidate to stand or fall by his own interest; and Mr. Marrable declared he expended seven Weathers (wethers), and thirty Gallons of Rum on the Occasion." Nevertheless, it seems that it was not so much on account of the mighty barbecue that Marrable was unseated. He evidently lacked the support among the ruling gentry that had enabled Mr. Read to stand by while others treated on his behalf. This eakness drove Marrable to a further step, probably the decisive one in invalidating his election. He wrote a letter "to Mr. David Caldwell, a Man of great Interest in the County, strongly soliciting his Interest." Marrable actually offered a bond of £500 in divided along certain lines. Such political trafficking was disapproved of, probably the more so when employed to offset weak personal connections among the country gentry.

"Election Day," from Rhys Isaac, THE TRANSFORMATION OF VIRGINIA, 1740-1790 (Chapel Hill, N. C.: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1982), pp. 110-113. Used with permission.

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Let America Speak: Issues and Personalities
http://www.history.org/other/teaching/voteasvoice/personalities.html:

Not all campaign promises offered "pie-in-the-sky"; some of them were concrete and practical. In Lunenburg in 1758, for example, Matthew Marrable favored dividing the county, which was very great in size and very injudiciously wrote a letter to David Cald ell agreeing that if he were elected, he would "do something extraordinary" for the freeholders in the upper settlements, or forfeit a large sum of money, five hundred pounds to be exact.

"Issues and Personalities" from Lucille Griffith, THE VIRGINIA HOUSE OF BURGESSES, 1750-1774 (Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1970), pp. 51-52, 142-143, and 60-63. Used with permission.
 

------------------------ Editorial Comment

Don't forget that historians don't have any more direct access to "truth" than do you or I (which is to say, none). They study the available writings long and hard, but in the end they have to us their imagination to make sense out of the fragments that emain. Matthew Marable has come to represent a particular aspect of the model of American society circa 1776 to which historians seem currently to agree. The theme suggested by the above excerpts is worked out more fully in Richard R. Beeman, "Deference, Republicanism, and the Emergence of Popular Politics in Eighteenth-Century America," 49 W&M Q'ly 3d at 415-419 (1992), in which Matthew Marable is contrasted with George Washington, a true representative of the gentry to whom deference was due.

In furtherance of this analysis of deference and power, Rhys Isaac attributes Matthew's actions (whatever the letter to Caldwell might have actually meant) to political weakness due to inadequate "connections." This contention would appear less persuasive if the historian disclosed the following facts:

1) Matthew was appointed to the House to fill the seat of Mr. Byrd.
2) he in fact won both the contested and the succeeding election;
3) the county he sought to divide was in fact divided -- twice; and
4) he continued to be elected when he ran over the next twenty years (almost) -- right up to the dissolution of the House on the eve of the Revolution.

Now wait a minute! Matthew Marable was the third in as many generations of his family to serve as justice, sheriff and member of the House of Burgesses. What does a family have to do to get a little good press around here?

End of sermon.
 

------------------------ Small Circle of Friends (and Family)

The following deed abstract shows a little about the neighborhood in which Matthew Marable, and then his children, lived. By this time (1795) Richard's brother John had already married Lucy Read Billups, and in four years Richard would marry Sarah Billu s. The Marable brothers and their Billups wives then set off for Georgia along with various members of the Billups and Stokes families.

1795 9 Oct DB 9:313 Richard Marable of Meck. to John Gregory of same 200 pd, 400 a. "being the residue of 700 a. conveyed to sd Richard Marable by Philip Whitehead Jackson & Elizabeth his wife after selling & conveying to Joseph Gregory 82 a. & to David Stokes 220 a. agreeable to the new lines surveyed, bounded by said new lines of Joseph Gregory & David Stokes & by lines of Edward & John Billups.

Wit: David Stokes Jr.; Joseph Gregory; Andrew Bailey.                 Sig: Richard Marable

----------------------- More and More Marables

New cousins keep popping up, filling in vast areas of the family tree. This month we have contributions from a descendant Amy [Marable] Drinkard of Charles City Co., VA and from two descendants of Dr. George John Boswell Marable (oldest son of Benjamin arable of Halifax Co., VA).
 

----------------------- Micky Mathis -- Drinkard Descendant Micky Mathis identifies the husband of Amy [Marable] Drinkard (daughter of George Marable, Jr. of Charles City Co., VA) as William Rollerson Drinkard and provides the following information: Mary Drinkard's will proved in Charles City Co., 14 Aug 1771, shows that she had three sons:

Francis Drinkard (fl. Amelia Co., 1755-1769)
William Rollerson Drinkard; and
John Drinkard (who married Ann_____)

Agnes [Drinkard] Coatney, who married Phillip Coatney in 1799
Nancy [Drinkard] Allen
William H. Drinkard, who married M. Frances Pacee in Albemarle Co. (it is thought)
George Drinkard
Joseph Drinkard
David Drinkard

Agnes Drinkard Nancy [Drinkard] Nance
William H. Drinkard
George Drinkard
Jas [Joseph?]Drinkard
David Drinkard

Further information from Micky gives these descendants of Amy Marable:

01.02.02.01 Amy MARABLE (b. bef. 1776; d. before 1796)
01.02.02.01.m (1771-1776) William Rollerson DRINKARD (d. 1804)
01.02.02.01.01 William H. DRINKARD
01.02.02.01.01.m Frances PACEE
01.02.02.01.02 Agnes DRINKARD
01.02.02.01.02.m (Jan 1799) Phillip COATNEY
01.02.02.01.03 George DRINKARD
01.02.02.01.04 James [Joseph?] DRINKARD
01.02.02.01.05 David DRINKARD
01.02.02.01.05.m (11 Jan 1810, Henrico Co.) Susannah KENDRICK
01.02.02.01.05.01 George H. DRINKARD (b. 1822)
01.02.02.01.05.02 Lemira DRINKARD (b. 1825, Buchannan, VA)
01.02.02.01.05.03 Mildren DRINKARD (b. 1833, Albemarle Co., VA)
01.02.02.01.05.04 Martha A. DRINKARD (b. 1840, Albemarle Co., VA)
01.02.02.01.06 Nancy DRINKARD
01.02.02.01.06.m1 (bef. 1796) _____ NANCE
01.02.02.01.06.m2 (btwn 1796 and 1805) _____ ALLEN
 

----------------------- Claudia Kemmerer's Great Grandmother George

Do you recall that George Elliot was a woman? Well, so was George Boswell ("Honey") Marable. She was Claudia Sue Kemmerer's great grandmother, and Claudia has provided us with these descendants of Honey's grandfather, Dr. George John Boswell Marable (son of Benjamin Marable of Halifax Co., VA, whose descendants are said to be innumerable):

01.02.02.09.01.01 Dr. George John Boswell MARABLE (b. 30 Oct 1821; d. aft 1910, LA)
01.02.02.09.01.01.m1 (20 Oct 1848, Halifax Co., VA) Ann C. FAULKNER
01.02.02.09.01.01.01 Susan B. Marable (b. 1849, Halifax Co., VA)
01.02.02.09.01.01.02 John Benjamin MARABLE (b. 1851, Halifax Co., VA; d. 23 Feb 1899, TX)
01.02.02.09.01.01.02.m (29 Dec 1875) Elizabeth Roane BRES
01.02.02.09.01.01.02.01 Mary Agnes MARABLE (b. 14 Nov 1876)
01.02.02.09.01.01.02.01.m (27 Aug 1899, Bowie, TX) Anderson H. TAYLOR
01.02.02.09.01.01.02.02 John Benjamin MARABLE, Jr. (b. 6 Apr 1878; d. 1903, Bowie, TX)
01.02.02.09.01.01.02.03 Joseph McGuire MARABLE (b. 14 Dec 1879)
01.02.02.09.01.01.02.03.m (21 Nov 1906) Nettie O. MOORE
01.02.02.09.01.01.02.04 Callie Bres MARABLE (24 Nov 1881)
01.02.02.09.01.01.02.04.m1 (19 Jun 1902) R. C. MONTGOMERY
01.02.02.09.01.01.02.04.m2 (13 Sep 1921) Dudley CONNER
01.02.02.09.01.01.02.05 George Boswell ("Honey") MARABLE (b. 17 Jan 1884, Bastrop, LA)
01.02.02.09.01.01.02.05.m (14 Sep 1903, Bowie, TX) William Marion TAYLOR
01.02.02.09.01.01.02.05.01 Elizabeth TAYLOR (b. 3 Jun1905, Holdenville, OK)
01.02.02.09.01.01.02.05.01.m (26 Jun 1928 Holdenville, OK) Charles R. KEMMERER
01.02.02.09.01.01.02.05.01.01 William Taylor KEMMERER
01.02.02.09.01.01.02.05.01.01.m Jane Lois HICKMAN
01.02.02.09.01.01.02.05.01.01.01 Jane KEMMERER
01.02.02.09.01.01.02.05.01.01.02 Charles Earl KEMMERER
01.02.02.09.01.01.02.05.01.01.03 Claudia Sue KEMMERER
01.02.02.09.01.01.02.06 Elizabeth Bres ("Chi") MARABLE (b. 18 Mar 1888)
01.02.02.09.01.01.02.06.m (20 Oct 1907) J. G. WITHERSPOON
01.02.02.09.01.01.02.06.01 Mary Adella WITHERSPOON (b. 18 Jun 1908; d. 16 Aug 1908) 01.02.02.09.01.01.02.06.02 Gordon Marable WITHERSPOON (24 Nov 1910)
01.02.02.09.01.01.02.06.03 Joseph Ray WITHERSPOON (27 May 1913, Ada, OK; d. 14 Apr 1928, OK)
01.02.02.09.01.01.02.06.04 Philip Edgar WITHERSPOON (b. 25 Oct 1918)
01.02.02.09.01.01.02.06.05 Dorothy Elizabeth WITHERSPOON (b. 14 Aug 1921)
01.02.02.09.01.01.02.06.05.m Orval PRICE
01.02.02.09.01.01.02.07 Ann Kathryn ("Kathleen") MARABLE (b. 7 Jan 1892)
01.02.02.09.01.01.03 Frances MARABLE (b. 1858, VA)
01.02.02.09.01.01.04 Mary W. MARABLE(b. 1856, VA)
01.02.02.09.01.01.05 George MARABLE (b. 1 Aug 1857, VA)
01.02.02.09.01.01.05.m Willie G. _____
01.02.02.09.01.01.05.01 Katie MARABLE (b. 1 Mar 1887)
01.02.02.09.01.01.05.02 Willie MARABLE (b. 1 Aug 1889)
01.02.02.09.01.01.05.03 George MARABLE (b. 27 Sep1894; d. Feb 1978)
01.02.02.09.01.01.05.04 Sudie MARABLE (1 Sep 1897)
01.02.02.09.01.01.05.05 John G. MARABLE (1 Sep 1899)
01.02.02.09.01.01.05.06 Mary B. MARABLE (1904)
01.02.02.09.01.01.06 Richard MARABLE (b. 1861, VA)
01.02.02.09.01.01.07 Virginia MARABLE(b. 1864, TX)
01.02.02.09.01.01.08 Katie P. MARABLE (b. 1867, Moreshouse Co., LA; d. Roswell, NM)
 

----------------------- Claudia's Cousin Gloria

No sooner had Claudia arrived with all of the above (heretofore all I had was Dr. G. J. B. Marable's marriage to Catherine Anne Faulkner in 1848 in Halifax Co.) than a cousin, unbeknownst to her, popped up with some surprises. It turns out that Dr. G. J. B. Marable had not one but three marriages, and Gloria Jeanne [Warren] Wheeler is a descendant of his second wife, Martha Whetstone. As one can see from the births of the last three children listed above, Dr. G. J. B. Marable and his wife, Catherine Anne Faulkner left Virginia after 1861 and went first to Texas, arriving there before 1864. By about 1867, however, the family had settled at Bastrop in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana.

Dr. Marable was a prominent resident of Bastrop for more than 40 years and a principal street near the center of town there bears the Marable name. It was about this time (1864) that Dr. Marable's first wife, Catherine Anne, died. He married, second, Martha Whetstone, before 1868 when the first of their two children were born. Dr. G. J. B. Marable and Martha Whetstone apparently divorced at sometime before 19 Dec 1882 when Mrs. M. W. Marable married J. E. Puckett. Mr. Puckett died before 1900 for in the census of that year the widow M. W. Puckett is found in the household of her brother W. D. Whetstone. Dr. G. J. B. Marable married, third, in 1887, Lena Gilbert, the widow of a Mr. Williams, and they had at least one child whose given name has not been determined. In 1910, Dr. G. J. B. Marable, age 90, was living in Bastrop in the household of his son, George B. Marable.

The two sons of Dr. G. J. B. Marable and Martha Whetstone went west, and Gloria is descended from the younger, William Culbert Marable, who settled in the Pecos Valley of New Mexico and married into the pioneer Coe family and their legends of John Chisum and Billy the Kid. William's elder brother Edmund W. [Whetstone?] Marable continued west to California. Coincidentally, I happen to have hanging on the wall behind me a campaign poster from the 1961 (or so) re-election campaign of Imperial Co. District Attorney James E. [Edmund?] Marable, son of William's brother Edmund. Unfortunately, the photograph was removed from the poster by the friend who presented it to me as a joke 35 years ago. In place of the picture of that James Marable now grins Alfred E. Newman clipped from a MAD Magazine cover. Myriad are the ways in which history is lost.

Anyway, here are the additional descendants of Dr. G. J. B. Marable brought to us by Gloria:

01.02.02.09.01.01.m2 (bef. 1868) Martha WHETSTONE
01.02.02.09.01.01.09 Edmund W. MARABLE (b. Nov. 1868, Morehouse Co., LA)
01.02.02.09.01.01.09.m Laura BAILEY
01.02.02.09.01.01.09.01 James E. MARABLE (d. CA)
01.02.02.09.01.01.09.02 Pauline MARABLE
01.02.02.09.01.01.09.03 Evelyn MARABLE
01.02.02.09.01.01.10 William Culbert MARABLE (b. 22 Jul 1875, Morehouse Co., LA; d. 1936, NM)
01.02.02.09.01.01.10.m Bertha COE
01.02.02.09.01.01.10.01 Jasper William MARABLE (b. 31 Aug 1901, Eddy Co., NM; d. Jan 1956, CA)
01.02.02.09.01.01.10.01.m Grace COBBLE
01.02.02.09.01.01.10.01.01 Jasper MARABLE (b. 31 Aug 1926, NM; d. Nov 1983, El Paso, TX)
01.02.02.09.01.01.10.01.02 Roy MARABLE (b. 1929, NM; d. Jun 1994, El Paso, TX)
01.02.02.09.01.01.10.01.02.m Mildred ____
01.02.02.09.01.01.10.01.02.01 Roy MARABLE, Jr.
01.02.02.09.01.01.10.01.02.02 Chereyl MARABLE
01.02.02.09.01.01.10.02 Bertha Louise ("Ludy") MARABLE (b. 26 Jan 1903, NM; d. Aug 1992, OR)
01.02.02.09.01.01.10.02.m MitchTRUETT
01.02.02.09.01.01.10.02.01 Dolores TRUETT
01.02.02.09.01.01.10.02.01.m John LYLES
01.02.02.09.01.01.10.02.02 Dawn TRUETT
01.02.02.09.01.01.10.02.02.m Richard RICE
01.02.02.09.01.01.10.03 Cara Mae MARABLE (b. 4 Jul 1916, Eddy Co., NM)
01.02.02.09.01.01.10.03.m1 Lloyd WARREN
01.02.02.09.01.01.10.03.01 Gloria Jeanne WARREN
01.02.02.09.01.01.10.03.01.m Robert WHEELER
01.02.02.09.01.01.10.03.m2 Millard SMITH
01.02.02.09.01.01.10.03.02 Sharon Devona SMITH
01.02.02.09.01.01.10.03.03 James Millard SMITH
01.02.02.09.01.01.10.03.04 Michael William SMITH
01.02.02.09.01.01.10.04 Mallory Culpepper MARABLE (b. 17 Feb 1921, Eddy Co., NM; d. 1942)
01.02.02.09.01.01.10.04.m Valery ____
01.02.02.09.01.01.10.04.01 Virginia Marie MARABLE (b. 30 Oct 1940, Los Angeles Co., CA)
01.02.02.09.01.01.m3 (28 Jun 1887, Morehouse Co., LA) Lena GILBERT
01.02.02.09.01.01.11 _____ MARABLE (b. aft. 1887, Morehouse Co., LA)
 

------------------------ Explanation of The Numbering System

By the way, the numbering system used above was introduced to me by Frank Chilton. Each pair of digits enumerates the children of an individual and each person in the chart is identified by a unique (multi-decimal) number The descendant tree starts wit "01 George Marable" the immigrant. "01.01" is reserved for the elusive William Marable who looks to have been a brother of Major George Marable. Everyone else in the tree is a descendant of "01.02 Major George Marable." The two charts given above show the 11 children (and their descendants) of the first child (Dr. G. J. B. Marable) of the first child (Benjamin Marable of Halifax Co.) of the ninth child (George Marable of Halifax Co.) of the second child (George Marable of Charles City Co.) of the second child (Major George Marable of James City Co.) of the immigrant (George Marable of James City Co.).

------------------------

As always,
More later,

Jim
 

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James L. Marable
jlm@dcn.davis.ca.us
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jlm - 11/14/97 15:45:12

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- 11/05/97 23:49:39

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Marable Family History Notes
15 October 1997

Hello, everyone,

First, let me confess right up front that I am not going to deliver on the promise to have something written up on Matthew the Burgess. Soccer season has taken an unexpected toll on my time. Maybe next time. Or the time after.

Fortunately, not everyone has been as idle as I on the family history front, and I have several reports to report:

------------------------ CHAMPION CARTER MERIWETHER MARABLE

Bonnie [Caven] [Lewis] Tsurudome, now of El Segundo, CA, has provided us with some great information on the descendants of George Marable of Mecklenburg Co., elder son of Matthew the Burgess. This George married Rebecca Williams on 9 Jan 1794 and, sad y, died shortly thereafter (will proved in Mecklenburg Co., VA, 15 Sep 1796), leaving an infant son -- Champion Carter Meriwether ("CCM") Marable, born 11 Apr 1796 in Mecklenburg Co., VA. Bonnie is a great great granddaughter of CCM Marable.

CCM Marable is found in Lunenburg Co., VA in the 1820's, where he stood as surety on the marriage bonds of Ellison Clarke and Elizabeth Crymes (1823) and Henry Farmer and Martha Walton (1824). I had little on him after that other than the name of th s wife and one of this sons which I gleaned from a letter sent by Clyde [Marable] McCarty to Winfred Marable.

Now we know that CCM Marable traveled through Alabama, where he married Rebecca Therese Gates in Green Co. on 15 Mar 1831, and then settled in Chickasaw Co., Mississippi. He represented Chickasaw Co. in the Mississippi state legislature immediately a ter the Civil War (1865-1867). He died in Chickasaw Co. in 1879 and is buried the Reid family cemetery there (Rebecca Gates' mother was Mary "Polly" Reid).

Here is a puzzle: the materials provided by Bonnie refer to a cousin of CCM Marable's from Alabama who visited him in Chickasaw Co. in 1863 and whose name was also CCM Marable. How could there be two CCM Marables? We will have to see if we can foll w up on this other one. The materials also state that CCM Marable was listed in the Mobile, AL, business directory as being in business there from 1837 to 1869, but Mobile is 220 miles from Chickasaw Co., MS, where CCM Marable lived. That is a long commu e.

Here are three generations of the descendants of CCM Marable:

1-Champion Carter Meriwether MARABLE (11 Apr 1796-15 Aug 1879)
sp: Rebecca Therese GATES (18 Jan 1814-17 May 1898)
....2-George MARABLE (1833-)
....2-Joseph G. MARABLE (1839-)
....2-William H. MARABLE (1841-3 Jul 1863)
....2-John S. MARABLE (1843-)
....sp: Mary CARTER (-)
....2-Richard W. MARABLE (1845-)
....sp: Mariah Louisa GATES (9 Jun 1855-7 Apr 1939)
....2-Mary Elizabeth "Bettie" MARABLE (5 May 1847-3 Jun 1873)
....sp: Amzi BABBITT (11 Feb 1825-30 Jun 1883)
....2-James Hartwell MARABLE (Mar 1849-5 May 1940)
....sp: Markie Elizabeth BURGESS (abt 1861-1893)
........3-Annie Louise MARABLE (11 Feb 1882-)
........3-Champion MARABLE (May 1884-)
........3-Joseph MARABLE (Jan 1887-)
........3-Elizabeth MARABLE (Apr 1889-)
........3-James Rose MARABLE (15 May 1892-) [* Clyde's line]
....2-Rebecca Ann ("Annie") MARABLE (16 Aug 1850-20 Jun 1941)
....sp: Amzi BABBITT (11 Feb 1825-30 Jun 1883)
........3-George Henry BABBITT (21 Jan 1877-1967)
........3-Phoebe BABBITT (14 Feb 1880-8 May 1885)
........3-Mary Elizabeth "Bessie" BABBITT (8 Mar 1882-1940)
........3-Therese Rebecca BABBITT (1 Sep 1878-15 Nov 1962) [* Bonnie's line]
....2-Samuel R. MARABLE (1852-)
....sp: Ella OSWALT (-)
....2-Helen MARABLE (1856-)
....sp: Curtis IVY (-)

One of the real treats in Bonnie's information is a journal which she is transcribing which was kept by her great uncle George Henry Babbitt (grandson of CCM Marable) when he was a young man (in the 1890's). I hope to add excerpts from it to the Ma able Family History Web site soon.

Bonnie's information, and that of Clyde [Marable] McCarty, is on file with the Chickasaw Co. Historical Society.

------------------------ CATHERINE [VICKERS?] [MARABLE] HUNTON

A message from a descendant of Catherine Marable and James Hunton (m. Clarke Co., GA, 1817) nudged me into looking for some verification for my suspicion that this Catherine Marable was "Cathern" [Vickers] Marable, the widow of Robert Marable. I found some at "The Vickers Family Resource Page" at

http://kvickers.toccofalls.edu/index.htm

William Vickers was a Revolutionary War soldier in North Carolina who moved to Wilkes, then Oglethorpe, then Clarke, then Walton, then Meriwether Co., GA. The Vickers pages identify William as the father of the Cathern Vickers who married Robert Mara le 18 Sep 1806. (they cite: Clarke Co., Marriage Book A:17).

We know that Robert Marable died in about 1817 because of the 1818 Clarke Co., GA, court order making his orphan, Christopher Marable, an apprentice to the tailor James Epps.

The Vickers researchers do not seem to have noticed the marriage of Catherine Marable and James Hunton, but their pages provide a suggestive piece of evidence for identifying her as Cathern Vickers. In about 1840, in Troupe Co., GA, John Vickers (pro ably Cathern's brother) was made guardian of the orphans of James Hunton. This would certainly make sense of Cathern Vickers and Catherine Marable (who married James Hunton) were the same person.

------------------------ MARY MERIWETHER MARABLE AND DAVID STOKES, JR.

The will of Matthew the Burgess mentions his son-in-law David Stokes, Jr. who married his daughter Mary Meriwether Marable on 3 Feb 1783 in Charlotte Co., VA. A descendant of this union, Robert W. Gatewood, who is now retired and living in Pt. Charlot e, FL, has joined our group and provided some additional information:

1-Mary Meriwether MARABLE
sp: David STOKES, Jr.
....2-Sarah ("Sallie") STOKES
....sp: Dr. John BIGGER
........3-Capt. David James BIGGER
........sp: Mary Elizabeth ROBERTSON
............4-Martha ("Pattie") Ann BIGGER
............sp: Edwin Austin CLEMENTS [Robert's line]
....2-Elizabeth B. STOKES
....sp: BURWELL
....2-Mary M. STOKES
....2-William B. STOKES
....sp: Nancy A.

He also informs us that David and Mary Stokes were living on Finneywood Creek in around 1816, which would have been on the land left to Mary by her father Matthew.

Coincidentally, one of the bits of information provided by Bonnie Tsurudomo about CCM Marable is that James Birchett was appointed his guardian in 1811, but was replaced as guardian in 1813 by William Stokes. CCM's first cousin William B. STOKES, abov , would have been coming of age about then, so this could be him.

------------------------ MARABLE FAMILY HISTORY WEB SITE BACK IN THE INDEX

The Marable Family History Web site disappeared from the Web search services (Yahoo, Infoseek, Excite, etc.) a while back, which perplexed me greatly. I finally discovered that the indexing services had purged all sites with URLs from providers of fre Web pages (geocities.com is one) because hackers had been using those services to attack the indexes somehow.

I have resolved the problem, at least temporarily, by using my old site at dcn.davis.ca.us as a front door for the Marable Family History site. I placed a five-generation descendant chart at the dcn site and re-registered that site with the indexer . Now a search for "George Marable," or one of his descendants, will return "jlm's DCN Homepage" from which the Marable Family History site is just a click away.

------------------------

Have fun,

Jim

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James L. Marable
jlm@dcn.davis.ca.us
/Heartland/Hills/5425
 

jlm - 11/05/97 23:43:14

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Marable Family History Notes
18 September 1997

Hello, everyone,

First let me apologize for the confusion that may have been caused by last month's Notes in which some of the material was duplicated and the signature was missing. Sorry. I'll try to do better.

------------------------------------------------------- MATTHEW MARABLE, JR.

I received some new information this week which may solve the mystery of what happened to the errant, eldest son, Matthew, of Matthew Marable, the burgess of Lunenburg and Mecklenburg counties. Some of you may recall that I became so confused about t is fellow that I finally took the position that he never existed (a position I abandoned only when I finally received a copy of his father's will which does indeed mention him, albeit briefly, published abstracts to the contrary notwithstanding).

First, a minor note from Darwin Marable forwarded to me by Hartwell Davis:

"By 1776 he [Matthew the burgess] owned a tavern near the College of William and Mary which had been owned by Mrs. Sarah Camp, the widow of John Camp, and was managed by his son, Matthew Marable, Jr."

Sometime between 1776 and 1786, Matthew, Jr. took off with £1000 of his father's money. One wonders how he managed this, since that kind of money would not have been in the till at the tavern in Williamsburg. In any event, in his will Matthew the fat er forgives and makes amends:

"I give and bequeath to my son Mathew and to his heirs forever all my money which he carried away with him which I believe was to the amount of one Thousand pounds."

Heretofore I have found nothing further about Matthew, Jr., although I have regarded him as a suspect in the 16 Dec 1790 Sussex Co., VA, marriage of a Matthew Marable and "Memima" (so abstracted) Mangum.

I got a message this week from a Pettus family researcher informing me that the Pettus cemetery in Dyer Co., TN, holds the graves of Matt Marable of South Carolina, his wife Jemima Glover, their daughter Elizabeth, who married Samuel Knox Pettus, and g anddaughters, Emily Pettus Bone and Mary Ann Pettus House. She tells me that it is also known that Matt and Jemima had another daughter, Mary, who married Stephen H. Tilgman. Here's a descendant chart:
00. Matthew MARABLE (b. ca 1760; d. 4 Dec 1830, Dyer Co., TN)
00.+ Jemima (or "Jamima") GLOVER (b. ca 1764; d. 14 Oct 1844, Dyer Co., TN)
00.01 Elizabeth MARABLE (b. 19 May 1798, York Co., SC; d. 6 Nov 1865, Dyer Co., TN)
00.01+ Samuel Knox PETTUS (b. 8 Mar 1793; d. 6 Jan 1866, Dyer Co., TN)
00.01.01 Emily PETTUS
00.01.01+ _____ BONE
00.01.02 Mary Ann PETTUS
00.01.02+ _____ HOUSE
00.02 Mary Ann MARABLE
00.02+ Stephen H. TILGMAN

The move from South Carolina to Tennessee may have occurred in 1830, shortly before Matthew's death. The 1830 census of South Carolina includes a "Mall Marable" (so indexed) which would be the same Matthew Marable indexed as "Matt Marable" in 1820, or a son. A look at the census schedules for 1830 should determine which. The family may also have lived in Mecklenburg Co., North Carolina, where word of Matthew's death was received and published on 12 Dec 1830.

My correspondent adds that, "Matt Marable's estate papers are in York County, SC Estate Papers, Case #32, File 1332, Samuel K. Pettus, administrator. Securities: Stephen Tillman, James B. Glover. Appraisers: John Jackson, James Knox, John Bennett, Jame Thorn, Robert Fullwood."

Not quite so dry as estate papers, I am also informed that family lore in the Pettus family holds that Jemima [Glover] Marable was a seamstress of note, and that she made one of George Washington's inaugural suits.

By next month I hope to put together something on Matthew, the father, whose complex character continues to defeat my efforts at understanding. I will pass along now an advertisement, discovered by Darwin Marable and provided to me by Hartwell Davis, which was part of a running battle of words which Matthew Marable carried on with "overseers" as a class. It was published in the Virginia Gazette on 2 Feb 1776:

"Mecklenburg County, Jan. 1776

"The subscriber from long experience, being fully convinced that the trusting [of] plantations and slaves to the management of a set of people calling themselves "overseers," will never produce any thing but ruin and destruction, is therefore determine to draw the management of what few slaves he possesses within the compass of his own abilities in looking over them, and by this determination, has and will have by next fall, between 20 and 30 very beautiful tenements, with a plantation to each, to rent out either for a single year or term of years and can supply the tenants with corn, wheat, fodder, and stock of all kinds.

"Any woman of good character, who understands housekeeping, teaching young children to read, girls the semptress business, embroidering, &c. and comes well recommended, shall meet with very agreeable and satisfactory encouragement by applying to

Matthew Marable"

More later,

Jim

James L. Marable
jlm@dcn.davis.ca.us
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/5425

jlm - 11/05/97 23:39:01

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Marable Family History Notes
3 September 1997

Several weeks ago I had a Marable letter in process to go out around the middle of August. Then we started winding up the summer with trips up to the Sierra and getting ready for school and the start of soccer season and THEN I had a hard disk crash t at wiped out all (and I mean ALL) of my e-mail. So, I am way late and way short.

------------------------ MARABLE, HARTWELL, DRUMMOND AND SWANN'S POINT

William Drummond was hanged as a rebel for his role as one of the three principals of Bacon's Rebellion in 1676. In fact, he was the only one of the three who was caught and hanged. Bacon himself died of an illness, and Richard Lawrence disappeared. Our ancestor, William Hartwell, Mary Hartwell's father, was the captain of Governor Berkeley's guard during the rebellion and is rather notorious for his zeal in repressing the rebellion.

One cannot help but be curious, then, about the association between the Marable, Hartwell and Drummond families which is suggested by the names of our progenitors George and Agnes [Marjorum] Marable as witnesses on the 1679 power of attorney of Sarah D ummond, William's widow, and, more pointedly, the mention in John Hartwell's 1710 will of "my cuzens John Drummond, George Marable, Jr. and Henry Hartwell Marable, children of my loving sister Mary Marable."

Swann's Point, the 1650 acre plantation directly across the James River from Jamestown, which was established by Col. Swann in the mid-1600's, weaves its way into this puzzle twofold. First, it was the venue of the Commissioners sent from England to nvestigate Bacon's Rebellion, and, consequently, the claims of rough treatment by Capt. William Hartwell. There has always seemed to me some irony, then, in the fact that the plantation was ultimately purchased in 1709 by Major George Marable and prompt y sold to his brother-in-law John Hartwell, son of the said Capt. William Hartwell. More significantly, however, is the matter of the deed, mentioned in a prior Note, from George Marable to John Hartwell, which appears to reserve to Marable and area in t e burial grounds of the plantation. This raises the possibility that Swann's Point is the final resting place of Major George Marable and Mary Hartwell.

Now comes news in the past week or so of developments on two fronts in these matters.

Cousin Pat Baber of Bumpass, VA, whose diggings in the courthouses of Charles City and Surry have turned up many wonderful things (including the deed above-mentioned), has made an initial foray out onto Swann's Point in search of graveyards. This reco naissance was rebuffed, by Pat's spirit is undampened. Here is her report (22 Aug 1997):

OH, we went out on Swan's Point. There was a long narrow paved road and then the paved road ended and there was a loooooong narrow dirt road. At the end of this road was a house, not old, not new, not pretty, just a house. I knocked on the door and after an eternity this little old lady came to the door and I asked about going to the cemetery. She replied in a really sharp tone, "you can't get to any of the cemeteries on this place". I asked her very nicely if there were any Marables or Hartwells uried in any of the cemeteries and she said she had never heard of those names. To sum it all up, she didn't want me to go to the cemeteries and made no bones about it. I was really nice and apologized if I was bothering her, but she was rude. She did oint out across the field and we could see the "mausoleum" as she called it of Col. Thomas Swann. It's not a mausoleum, but a monument according to an article in a book the lady at the courthouse had. The article goes on to tell who is buried in that pa ticular cemetery, all Swann's, but says there are no other gravestones. I don't know who is buried in the other two cemeteries and don't know if I will ever find out. However, crazy Dianne takes care of really old people, like feeding them and bathing t em, that kind of stuff. The old people that she takes care of now are originally from Surry and know lots of people there. She is going to find out if they know these people who live on Swan's Point now. Perhaps we will get in to that cemetery yet..... hey really have a beautiful view. It is directly across from the original fort at Jamestown. My Virginia Gazetteer shows where it is. It's not listed in the index, but it is on the map

Front number two is from a friend recently made who is a descendant of William Drummond and also curious about the connections between the several families in the aftermath of Bacon's Rebellion. George and Mary Marable may not be the only strangers to the Swann family buried at Swann's Point. From Carol Shrader (2 Sep 1997):

I got a large Drummond research paper from a SC descendant today and it had some wonderful information that clears up some of our questions. The research was done by a Zelma Wells Price from Greenville, MS and was published as a part of OF WHOM I CAME; FROM WHENCE I CAME WELLS-WISE, RISH-WISE AND OTHERWISE, a Compilation of Genealogies of Families of:....... and appears to have been extensively researched both stateside and in England. Her records indicate that Sarah was not the daughter of Edward Prescott, but was either a niece or sister-in-law. Her English research indicates that Sarah's father was Edward Swann, a relative of Edward Prescott, and that her daughter Sarah's marriage to Samuel Swann was that of a third cousin marriage. I have been madly going through your old e-mail messages to see if there was a Marable/Swann connection but have much filing to be done and have not located the one in which you detailed the Marable ancestry.

It also indicates this interesting tidbit "(From OFR we find the following, written long, long ago: "After the execution of William Drummond, some of the men who actually participated in his capture and his trial, but who were still his warm personal friends and silent sympathizers, pretended to lower his uncoffined body into the James River. Instead, he was hurriedly and secretly buried in a shallow grave deep in the swamp; and soon thereafter his body was carried quietly by night to the Swann family graveyard at Swann's Point in Surry county, and there given a speedy and simple Christian burial. Except for identification by a certain rough stone, his grave was intentionally unmarked. For a hundred years or more no word was spoken concerning the disposition of his remains, although his family and descendants have always known by a whisper, a nod, or the flash of an eye where his body was laid to rest. When his faithful, beloved and courageous wife died ten years later, she, too, was laid to rest at Swann's Point beside her husband, with not a word spoken then or thereafter that she lay beside her husband. Her grave was also unmarked, but both of these graves bore, for many, many years, marks of identification for the eyes of their loved ones". (Then in the next paragraph a referral to their daughter's burial.) Their daughter Sarah "was buried at Swann's Point, in Surry County at her own mother's feet..."(VMHB., Vol, 28, p. 31) jlm

jlm - 11/05/97 23:35:42

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Dear Marables,

It is about time for another Marable family history message from me, but this isn't it.

It has just come to my attention that the name Marable has cropped up in fiction once again. "The Buccaneers," a three-part Masterpiece Theatre offering airing on PBS this month, includes among the dramatis personae a "Lord Richard Marable." Part on played here on May 11, but I missed it; but the program notes refer to Lord Richard as a "roaming husband" (so I can guess where this is going . . .).

I guess this earns a slogan like "All the Marable news, great and small" for this electronic newsletter.

Jim

--
James L. Marable
jlm@dcn.davis.ca.us
Marable Family History --
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/5425
also: http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us
 

jlm - 11/05/97 23:33:13

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Hello, Marable's:

----------- VISIT THE NEW MARABLE FAMILY HISTORY WEB SITE!

I kept thinking that I would get more "done" with it before sending out this notice, but I give up. It will never be done and it will always be getting more done. I have set up a new "Marable Family History" WWW site at geocities.com (everybody's oing it -- the Web sites and e-mail addresses are free) and invite you all to take a look at what is new:

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/5425

Much of the material has just been copied from my old homepage (which is still there, but will soon only include a link to the new site for the Marable history), but there is quite a bit that is new as well. Pat Baber and the "other" JLM (family from Tennessee) and others have been inundating me with things, and some of them have made it into the new pages already.

To accommodate this neat new stuff, I am setting up a "Marable Documents Repository" -- the first part of which is already on the new site. This will contain transcriptions of documents of particular significance for Marable family historians. Here s what I have so far (early documents: 1659 - 1800):
 

Bond of George Marable et al. in Surry Co. -- 1659
Will of Henry Hartwell, parish of Stepney (abstract) -- 1699
Will of Claude Rouvierre, Henrico Co. -- 1740
Agreement and Bond of Matthew Marable -- 1757
Will of Henry Hartwell Marable -- 1775
Will of George Marable (abstract) -- 1778
Will of Christopher Marable -- 1795
In re Estate of Ann Marable -- 1796

There are a few documents to be added to this list. The next page, to be posted within a few days, will get into the documents from the 1800's, most of which are from Charles City Co., Virginia, right now, and will include at least:

Will of Lt. Edward Marable (1805)
Deed of Children of William Marable to John Young (1810)
Deed of Abraham Marable to Elizabeth Gill (1816)
Will of Elizabeth Gill (1830)
Deed of Elizabeth Major Marable to Children (1844)
Will of Judith P. Marable (1859)
In re Estate of Judith P. Marable (after 1859)
In re Estate of Elizabeth Major Marable (between 1866 and 1872)

To save your own copy of these documents, just use the "save" or "save as" command on the file menu of your Web browser. To save just one document or portion of a document, highlight what you want and use the "copy" command on the edit menu and then p ste it into your text editor or word processor.

I also intend to post transcriptions of the Marable family Bible records held by the Library of Virginia as soon as I can, and a table of about 140 Marable marriages, 1760 - 1881, most of which are listed on Family History CD's 3, 4 and 229, but most f which have also been confirmed from local secondary sources.

------------- THE BONES OF GEORGE AND MARY MARABLE?

Examination of the 1709 deed from Major George Marable to his brother-in-law John Hartwell for the 1650 acre Swann's Point plantation across the river from Jamestown (thanks again to Pat Baber for a copy thereof from the Surry Co. records) reveals an exception or reservation of "fifty foot Square ground for a buriall place at or near the usuall place of buriall on the said Land." This may only echo a reservation in the earlier deed from Samuel Swann and reserve to him a plot in the Swann family ceme ery; however, it is possible that it reflects an intention on the part of George and Mary Hartwell Marable to be buried at Swann's Point -- and they may in fact be buried there. Further, on-site investigation is required; but it is unlikely that there is an undiscovered Marable headstone at Swann's Point.

------------- SONS OF WILLIAM MARABLE The Articles of Agreement between William Marable and Matthew Marable and the Bond of Matthew Marable both of 6 September 1757 (thanks to Winfred Marable for providing copies) establish two things: 1) William Marable retained a connection with Edward Cham ion Travis at this late date (at least as a debtor of Travis); and William, the younger, John and Christopher Marable were in fact, as suspected, Matthew's younger brothers. These documents are part of a transaction in which William transferred all of h s real and personal property to Matthew in exchange for Matthew's promise to raise his younger brothers (and provided them with some of the estate when they reached 21) and to provide for the needs of William and his wife for the rest of their lives. The Bond (which covers the younger brothers) is also the only document that I have seen which reveals that Christopher's full name was Christopher Edward Marable.

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As always,

More later,

Jim

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James L. Marable
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Marable Family History --
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"Everybody is Ignorant, only on different subjects." -- Will Rogers

jlm - 11/05/97 23:27:47

Comments:
Marable Family History Notes
23 Mar 1997

Dear Marables, I started this about two weeks ago (when the Merrimac item seemed timely) but got distracted with other things. Suddenly, I have several new things to relate to you so I am starting up again. --------- NEW ADDITION TO THE LIST George R. Marable of Washington state has resurfaced (after a period out of e-mail reach) and brought with him a new acquaintance. At first I thought it might be just a trick using mirrors -- since the new member's name is, like my own, James L. Marable! However, this one (also aka "Jim") has "Leon" as his middle name and is descended from some Tennessee Marable's who emigrated from there to Mississippi. James' information provided so far seems to dovetail nicely with some confirmations I just received rom Winfred Marable in Florida (see below), so I think that he can be "hooked right up" to the Jamestown Marable. --------- INFORMATION FROM WINFRED MARABLE I got a response yesterday from Winfred Marable of Florida to my "snail mail" inquiry to him. Winfred says that he has not been focusing on the Marable's for quite some time, turning his attention now, when he feels up to it, to his mother's people -- t e Fraziers and Doves of Randolph County, North Carolina. Winfred sent copies of a number of interesting documents and had several things to say worthy of their own subject heading, so they will be treated below. --------- PUSHING BACK THE DATE OF IMMIGRATION: 1659 There is a bond recorded in Surry County, VA, in July of 1659 securing the good behavior pending Court of one William Jennings. Signed 19 Jul 1659 by Jennings, Thomas Bently and George Marable, the bond is in the amount of 50 pounds sterling. This estab ishes that George Marable arrived in Virginia in or before 1659. If George Marable was in fact good for the amount of the bond, then he was already a man of some means at that time, 50 pounds sterling being a considerable amount of money in 1659. -------- AUTOGRAPHS, ANYONE? Some of the copies provided by Winfred Marable contain actual autograph signatures of the parties (most of the court and land records that we find are clerks copies without actual signatures (other than that of the clerk)). The copies are not very good, ut the signatures should clean up fairly well after scanning. Rather than waiting to send this out and attaching graphics of the signatures (which would surely bamboozle somebody), I will post the signatures on my Web pages today or tomorrow so that you an see them (and download them) there. At a glance, it looks like we have these autograph signatures: George Marable, the immigrant -- 1659, 1680 George Marable, Capt., Major -- 1696, 1706, 1708 Mary Marable, wife of George -- 1696 The autograph of Mary Marable (on her 1696 release of dower regarding the 1/2 acre on Jamestown Island) could be an invaluable treasure. In the absence of other evidence, Uncle Henry Hartwell's 1699 (will which refers to Mary Hartwell as not yet 18 and n t yet married) may be taken as showing that George Marable and Mary Hartwell did not marry until after 1699. This would mean that George Marable was married to another Mary during the 1690's (and that other Mary would likely be the mother of William Ma able). If we can find a post 1700 document containing Mary (Hartwell) Marable's signature, we may be able to settle these questions once and for all. As long as I have opened this can of worms, Winfred's materials also contain a copy of a letter from a Clyde (poor woman!) Winstead Marable McCarty who shows Capt. George Marable married to a Mary Spenser. I hope to get a letter off to Mrs. McCarty tod y, since she may know something that we don't which can also settle this question. By the way, Cousin Winfred and I seem to think quite a bit alike. He had a handwriting expert examine the 1659 and 1680 signatures of the immigrant George Marable and got an opinion that they are indeed signatures of the same person made twenty year apart. --------- ANCIENT ORIGINS OF THE MARABLE FAMILY One last item from Winfred's materials for now. Once a fan of the Huguenot theory, Winfred now is convinced that the Marable's were Normans who entered England with William the Conqueror in 1066. Moreover, he maintains that the family came originally fro what is now Denmark, moving south into France long, long ago. In support of this view he points to contemporary instances in Denmark of the name as Mariboel, Mariboe and Maribo. --------- THE MARABLES AND THE MERRIMAC It was on 9 March 1862 that the ironclad ships Monitor and Merrimac fought for five hours in the battle of Hamton Roads, so this seems an appropriate occasion to let you know that five members of the Charles City Southern Guard, then stationed at Mulber y Island in the James River, volunteered and served aboard the Patrick Henry during the engagement between the Merrimac and the Federal fleet. The unit was under the command of Lance Corporal John E. S. Major, who married Maria L. Marable. The other fou Guards were Robert E. Davis, William H. Lacy, Richard M. Brims and Edward W. Marable. (This information is from notes made by John E. S. Major after the War which are now in the Major-Marable Family Papers at the Williamsburg Foundation Library.) --------- CORRECTION OF MY LAST MESSAGE: THE WRONG AMY In my last message I mentioned the legal opinion written by John Tyler (later to be President of the U. S.) in 1820 for Amy Griffith and stated that she was a daughter of George Marable of Charles City. Please forgive me for typing off the top of my ead, so to speak. I was thinking of Amy COLLIER when I misdescribed Amy Griffith. Amy Griffith was, instead, the grandmother of Elmora Catherine Griffith Marable (who was probably the great granddaughter George Marable of Charles City). Elmora marr ed George Bernard Major and was, coincidentally, the mother of John E. S. Major, mentioned in the preceding paragraph.

As always,

More later,

Jim

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James L. Marable

jlm@dcn.davis.ca.us

jlm - 11/05/97 23:21:11

Comments:
Dear Marables, I have been reviewing copies of some of the documents that are preserved at the Williamsburg Foundation Library in a collection known as the Major - Marable Family Papers (1703-1929). John Major (d. 1810) (who married Martha Marable, daughter of George M rable of Charles City) obtained the papers of George's brother Henry Hartwell Marable (d. 1774) when he wound up the administration of Hartwell's estate. The papers were passed down, with others, to his son George B. Major (who married Eleanor (or Elmora Marable, great granddaughter of George Marable) and then to George B.'s son John E. S. Major (who married Maria L. Marable, daughter of Edward Marable and Elizabeth Major). I have been having quite a bit of fun. Few of the papers concern matters of genealogical significance, but I thought that I would share with you some of what I have found. --------- THE SECOND WIFE OF WILLIAM MARABLE The theory that William Marable (b. ca. 1700, James City Co., VA; d. ca. 1764, Lunenburg Co., VA) married, second, a daughter of Edward Travis (who was the son of Edward Travis and Elizabeth Champion) has received a boost. The speculation is based upon he appearance of the names "Champion" and "Edward Travis" in the families of William's sons. Now there is some slim evidence to support it. The Travis family was at Jamestown from early in the 17th Century and the third Edward Travis was a justice of th county with the immigrant George Marable in 1680. His grandson, Edward Champion Travis, was Burgess for James City County (ca. 1755 - 1765), as was Edward Champion's son Champion Travis (ca. 1770-1775). There is a note, dated 18 Nov 1747, from Edward Champion Travis (who would have been the brother of the hypothesized wife of William) to Henry Hartwell Marable (William's brother). The note advised Hartwell that Travis' mother was interested in selling s me chairs that Hartwell had admired and was signed "from your friend and Relation Edw Travis." This use of the word "Relation" is the first actual evidence that I have seen of a Marable-Travis marriage. --------- THE WIFE OF ABRAHAM MARABLE There is a receipt given by Abraham Marable (son of George Marable of Charles City) to John Major in 1783 in connection with the administration of the estate of Turner Jackson (overseer) which shows that Abraham's wife was the daughter of Turner Jackson. ---------- THE HUSBAND OF AMY MARABLE There is a legal opinion dated 9 Oct 1820 which shows that Amy Griffith, grandmother of Elmora Catherine Griffith Marable, was the wife of William Griffith, who was the son of Thomas Griffith. I might not even mention this little addition to our knowledge, but the legal opinion itself is worthy of some note. The lawyer Amy Griffith consulted was John Tyler, tenth President of the United States. He was from Charles City, Virginia, and was in t e process then of retiring from Congress for reasons of health (according to my encyclopedia). Tyler was elected President twenty years later, in 1841. The world was much smaller back then. Jim -- James L. Marable jlm@dcn.davis.ca.us http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us